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Re: Grange Town
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« Reply #10 on: Sunday 13 December 20 18:46 GMT (UK) »
There are 9 instances of the use of Grange Town in that link, and 49 of Grangetown.

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« Reply #11 on: Sunday 13 December 20 18:46 GMT (UK) »
Daily Exchange 1st November 1882

On Monday afternoon last our reporter had an interview with one of the firm who have contracted to build the new town of Grangetown, a place which for rapid growth is probably without equal.

http://northeasthistorytour.blogspot.com/2011/12/building-of-grangetown-1881-82-nz547210.html

Also see Cleveland and Teesside Local History Society http://ctlhs.co.uk/golden-jubilee/fifty-interesting-places/grangetown/
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« Reply #12 on: Sunday 13 December 20 19:01 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: chempat on Sunday 13 December 20 18:15 GMT (UK)
That is one map in 1888, does not preclude it from different names over time.

Maybe so, but looking at old newspaper reports around the time that it was first being built (1881), it seems that the given name was originally Grangetown.

Middlesbrough Daily Gazette, 14th April 1881
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Re: Grange Town
« Reply #13 on: Sunday 13 December 20 19:04 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: JenB on Sunday 13 December 20 19:01 GMT (UK)
Quote from: chempat on Sunday 13 December 20 18:15 GMT (UK)
That is one map in 1888, does not preclude it from different names over time.

Maybe so, but looking at old newspaper reports around the time that it was first being built (1881), it seems that the given name was originally Grangetown.

Middlesbrough Daily Gazette, 14th April 1881

thank you for putting that point across, everything i find from back then gives the correct spelling being grangetown
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